At ERCOT's request, CPS spending $150M to speed up new transmission lines
At ERCOT's request, CPS speeds up new transmission line buildout to ease risk of cascading outages on Texas grid.
T&D World3dOpinion
Better Neighbors: The Case for a More Cooperative Power Grid
With power-hungry parts of the US economy poised to grow, policymakers need to take a hard look at how the power grid can be ...
Texas is giving out $5B in loans to build natural gas power plants. Some companies say no thanks.
Four companies have pulled their natural gas power plant projects from consideration from the $5 billion Texas Energy Fund ...
Big Tech’s data center boom poses new risk to US grid operators
Data Center Alley, a 30-square-mile stretch outside Washington D.C. and home to more than 200 data centers, consumes roughly ...
POWER Magazine4d
Nation’s Power Operators Warn Congress of a Coming Reliability Shortfall
and independent system operators (ISOs)-nonprofit entities responsible for planning and operating the high-voltage electric grid across large multi-state regions. All but ERCOT are regulated by ...
Texas Senate passes multiple bills halfway through legislative session
The Texas Senate has passed more than half of 40 bills identified as legislative priorities by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and 133 ...
Houston Public Media3d
CenterPoint agrees to absorb costs of mobile generators and cut rates for Houston-area customers
The utility leased the 15 large, mobile generators at a cost of more than $800 million after the widespread power failures ...
Texas Lawmakers Propose Regulations to Protect Power Grid
Texas lawmakers are trying to figure out how the state's already-strained power grid can keep up with the data centers that ...
pv magazine USA8d
Texas bill supports dispatchable resources, excludes energy storage
The legislation aims to limit the growth of energy storage in a state where a booming renewable market is lowering the need ...